About
Currently, I'm building Sundial (sundial.so). Formerly I was the VP of design for Facebook's consumer app. "The Making of a Manager" is my bestselling book on management. I angel invest in founders and companies I want to see more of.
I reflect often. I love learning. I believe builders diagnose with data and treat with design. 🍜🍜👀
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Work Experience
Helping builders make more intentional decisions with data.
We are pioneering some innovative ways to automate insights and tell compelling stories with data. Our team is amazing and I love the learning and collaboration that happens every day in our journey.
Are you a curious and kind engineer or data scientist who strives for excellence? Come join us!
I started out as a product designer at Facebook. Some cool things I launched in my first years:
- First version of Facebook's 3rd-party platform and Connect with Facebook
- External like button and comment widget
- Notifications
- Typeahead search (conceived and built overnight as a hackathon project)
- A side-project Facebook App called (fluff)Friends that was used by millions
A few years later, I started managing portions of the design team. I grew from manager to director to VP overseeing design and research for the Facebook consumer product.
Projects I supported as a manager:
- Many redesigns on web and mobile (including going from hamburger menus to tabs, from blue bars to white bars, from small stories to big ones)
- News feed, sharing, profiles, groups/communities
- Reactions
- Workplace
- Many Creative Lab app experiments
- Facebook Paper
- Facebook Home
Writing
Great managers are made, not born.
The Making of a Manager is a modern field guide for new and growing managers. It's everything I would tell you if we had a long coffee together, born from me making just about every mistake you can.
It covers topics like:
- What is management?
- How do you get started as a manager
- What should you talk about in a 1:1
- How to run meetings
- How to hire
- How to manage managers
and more.
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